Practical Coach: Management Skills for Everyday Life, The

Work and Health

Your job can be helpful or hazardous to your psychological and physical health. ^[40] For example, in a study that focused on employees' relationships with their supervisors, researchers concluded that “individuals who perceived supervisory support as being low reported significantly higher physiological and social dysfunction symptoms.”^[41]

Not everybody's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.

—Alice Walker, Author

The amount of control and autonomy you have in your job can influence your psychological and physical well-being. For example, you are likely to experience more stress when the demands of your job are high, but you have little control over how you meet those demands. However, when ...